I've found that using Hiera for this type of problem work's really well. Hiera is integrated into Puppet 3.0+
https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera Drew On Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:54:47 PM UTC-4, rogerl...@gmail.com wrote: > > We need to refer to common variables across multiple modules. For example, > our dns module, firewall module and monitoring module need knowledge of our > radius server IP address. Is the correct approach to create a 'common' > class where these variables are defined and then reference them from each > module and create a class dependancy as below. We are using a custom ENC > which outputs the class parameters. > > # modules/common/manifest/init.ppclass common ( > $radius_ip, > $fw_ip, > $zabbix_ip,) {} > # modules/common/manifest/apache.ppclass apache ( > $fw_ip = $common::fw_ip, > $zabbix_ip =$common::zabbix_ip,) { > class { 'common': } -> > class { 'apache': }} > # modules/common/manifest/maradns.ppclass maradns ( > $radius_ip = $common::radius_ip, > $fw_ip = $common::vpn_ip,){ > class { 'common': } -> > class { 'apache': }} > # ENC ouput--- > classes: > common: > fw_ip: '10.50.1.1' > radius_ip: '10.50.1.12' > zabbix_ip: '10.50.1.11' > apache: > ntp: > maradns: > environment: production > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
